The organisation AvMA, is so worried about the current situations that it is considering setting up an independent Extrusion Pen Packaging which would supply patients with information about their surgeon, his or her competence and his or her success rate. Such an organisation would also be able to offer support to patients whose surgery has gone wrong.

All ex-ABBA members shun publicity; they don't need it. But Ulvaeus liked a Village Voice essay I'd written about Gold, and wanted some explanation as to why without effort his old band had once again became phenomenally famous, particularly in the LGBT community, which had adopted ABBA as honorary patron saints like Judy Garland and Madonna. At the time, gay men of my generation were dying of AIDS in unprecedented numbers, and so my explanation of ABBA's largely gay-driven resurgence focused on escapism, cheering grieving spirit and the group's accidental humor.

Then, he helped give aid to injured and dying passengers — he writes about that in a letter that is also on display in the Morgan exhibition (c). Finally, he saved his novel: "He scrambled back into the wreckage," Kiely says. "Several train carriages had gone over a bridge into a river below. Dickens' carriage was precipitously balanced on that bridge.

He crazily climbed back in to retrieve from his luggage this portion of the novel — due for publication later that month." Dickens died five years later in 1870, after a stroke at age 58. Dickens' achievement was extraordinary, says novelist T.C. Boyle, who earned a doctorate in Victorian literature. "He achieved what any great artist achieves — a body of work that has entertained and delighted and instructed people down through the ages.